Grep for first matching line only

[wtrepani]

Hi all,

I have a file where many lines contain the text "wtrepani". I want to grep the file and get only the first line it finds back, then exit. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

Will

 

[poet1964]

Hello Will,

try this:

grep wtrepani <filename>|head -1


bye

Jürgen

 

[toolkit]

Or:

awk '/wtrepani/{print;exit}' <file>

Cheers, Neil

 

[bigoldbulldog]

Or:

sed -n '/wtrepani/{p;q;}' <file> Cheers,
ND

bigoldbulldog@hotmail.com

 

[MikeLacey]

there's more than one way to do it - as someone or other once said... Mike

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[crowe]

grep -m 1 &quot;wtrepani&quot; file


crowe

 

[MikeLacey]

-m ? what does that do? I had a look at the Solaris and Linux man pages and couldn't see it, did I just miss the option? Mike

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[dickiebird]

-m no work on AIX . Dickie Bird (-)))